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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 21:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 21:6 |
King James |
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| with the breaking of thy loins--as one afflicted with pleurisy; or as a woman, in labor-throes, clasps her loins in pain, and heaves and sighs till the girdle of the loins is broken by the violent action of the body (Jer 30:6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The prophet was directed to let the people see him sighing and prostrate, as a sign of the sorrow and weakness about to come upon the people.
The breaking of thy loins - The prostration of strength; the loins being the seat of strength. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Sigh therefore - Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins - Like a woman in travail. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Sigh - with the breaking of thy loins - Let thy mourning for this sore calamity be like that of a woman in the pains of travail. |
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?